Walt Disney's General Electric Industrial Film (1964)

This promotional film was produced to send General Electric executives to show them an update on the attraction they'd sponsored for the NY 1964-65 World's Fair, the Carousel of Progress. This is the debut of when anyone outside of the studio first heard the song Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, here sung by Walt Disney with the Sherman Bros, his right-hand songwriting team. The Shermans said they viewed this song as Walt's theme song and a still from this short was used for the cover of their 1998 autobiographical scrapbook Walt's Time. It also inspired the cover of an early 90's compilation CD of their music. It should also be noted that while Bob Sherman (standing) walked with a cane due to a wound he suffered during WWII, he not only walks without it but does a little jump kick in the end exiting the film. He was willing to do that for Walt.

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